DPRK’s Nuclear Provocations and the Indian Response India needs to engage more pointedly with South Korea, Japan, the United States and even bilaterally with DPRK to convey its concerns regarding the latter’s strategic cooperation with Pakistan. Jagannath P. Panda September 27, 2016 IDSA Comments
The End of an Era in Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov’s foremost contribution to the region and the world is to shield Uzbekistan from the onslaught of radical Islam. Skand Tayal September 26, 2016 IDSA Comments
Syria: The Cease-Fire that was and wasn’t The Kerry-Lavrov agreement did not work because those who had to cease fire were not willing to abide by it. K. P. Fabian September 23, 2016 IDSA Comments
Calibrated Responses: The Way Forward for Defeating Proxy War Through a pragmatic strategy coupled with national will, India should undertake calibrated responses to defeat Pakistan’s proxy war game plan with a view to making its misadventures prohibitively costly and unsustainable. G.G. Dwivedi September 23, 2016 IDSA Comments
Pakistan’s Tactical Nuclear Warheads and India’s Nuclear Doctrine The advocacy by Pakistani analysts of the Indian disinclination to retaliate massively in response to their use of TNWs on their own soil indicates either a flawed analysis or a bluff that the Indian armed forces would be inclined to call. Gurmeet Kanwal September 21, 2016 Issue Brief
Trinidad and Tobago’s Air Arms: Inefficient Duplication of Effort For Trinidad and Tobago, having two Air Arms has led to duplication of effort that has rendered existing assets less effective than they otherwise might have been. A faulty procurement process has also led to an incompatibility of both aircraft and avionics. Sanjay Badri-Maharaj September 21, 2016 IDSA Comments
Can Prachanda use his India visit to resolve the Madhes issue at home? Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal has a whole pile of problems lying unsolved at home. And he has only nine months, as set by his coalition partners, to deliver on his promises. Umesh K. Bhattarai September 16, 2016 IDSA Comments
Deciphering Pakistan’s Kashmir Lexicon India has failed the Valley by not countering the false narratives of Pakistan’s false lexicon on Kashmir. Prabha Rao September 08, 2016 Issue Brief
An Assessment of President Obama’s Foreign Policy If the history of the world is the world’s court of justice, history will rate Obama, the 44th President of the United States, among the top ten of the holders of that high office. K. P. Fabian September 08, 2016 IDSA Comments
The race for leadership in supercomputers – does India stand a chance? India must move away from the perspective which it has allowed to dominate, namely, that the application of supercomputers is more important than supercomputer technologies themselves. Prabha Rao September 07, 2016 Issue Brief